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Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there. May your day be everything you want it to be and then some. This is my first weekend living in the Detroit Metro area so I will be quietly getting my bearings (and hopefully a car wash). I spent twelve hours in the car on Thursday and listened to more podcasts than I ever thought possible. On Tuesday, June 20th I will be attending the DevOps Detroit Meetup at Grand Circus. If you are near Detroit come check it out! It was a busy week in the world of DevOps and looks to be an even busier one this coming week.

Full Stack Fest 2017: Problems of today, wonders from the future.
Barcelona, 4–8 Sept. 2017
Are you a curious mind? Full Stack Fest is a week-long conference based in the amazing city of Barcelona that peeks into the web of tomorrow. Serverless, Blockchain, WebVR, Distributed Web, Progressive Web Apps… Come and see! Early bird tickets available with a 10% discount using the code DEVOPSISH. SPONSORED

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SQLite made the bold claim that their relational database is 35% faster than the filesystem. “This article disproves the common assumption that a relational database must be slower than direct filesystem I/O.”

Slack raising another HUGE round (Series G, I believe). The company is trying to grab $500 million with a $5 billion post-funding valuation. Why is this significant to the DevOps world? This funding round piqued the interest of Amazon. Any suitor would obviously like to buy Slack pre-round if it could as it will be at a discounted valuation. For the sake of DevOps alone, Slack needs to remain independent.

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I'm Chris Short, 20+ veteran of the IT industry and 11 year veteran of the US Air Force. I help people and companies embrace DevOps practices and tools through writing and public speaking. I am a staunch advocate for transparency and open source solutions to problems.